Maurice Druon, life secretary of the French Academy, writer, statesman, was born in 1918 in Paris. He began to study literature during the Second World War, when he, a participant in the battles on the Loire, a member of the Resistance, spoke with “Letters to a European” on the radio from London, wrote, together with his paternal uncle, the famous “Song of the Partisans” for the Maquis troops, and worked war correspondent in North Africa.
